Three judges have agreed that hacker Gary McKinnon can appeal to the House of Lords against his extradition order to the US. McKinnon, 41, was charged in 2002 with multiple counts of breaking into US military and government computer networks. However, he has remained free in Britain while he fights extradition.

In this post for programmers and "webmasters" we try to teach how to cache and gzip your CSS and javascript content, to speed up the download time of your site. Your Web application can use this files if:- You can use .htaccess- You have CSS only and JS only folders to apply to the whole folder- You can use PHP in your hosting

Nick L.A. wrote some pretty cool hacks on how to modify wordpress themes and wordpress code to use it as a general CMS platform and not only as blogging platform. Tricks are easy to use for non developers.

Monday, July 2, 2007

Since AskApache.com was disqualified and accused of cheating, which is absolutely false, I decided to go ahead and do the crime I have been punished for. That's right, I'm going to show YOU how I COULD have rigged the DHSOTM contest to hopefully make the statement that I absolutely did not cheat.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Friday, May 25, 2007

Ever notice that sometimes your sites take a while to load all the way because loading Google’s urchin.js file is taking forever? You may recognize this problem when you see something similar to this in your browsers status bar “Transferring data from google-analytics.com…”Time for Fix? 4 minutes

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

All you need is a MAC and a device and you can sniff without sending any packets, making yourself invisible. I have been in some tight spots where I had to sniff a password or two off the wire, or sniff some packets off the wire undetected.. So I tried a few things and this is what worked..

Thursday, May 17, 2007

I wanted a particular flash movie to show up when a user clicked on one of six buttons. I got the flash element to disappear or appear behind or in front by using the zIndex css attribute with javascript, and the wmode attribute.

Web Developers sometimes use file.ext?v=004 as a version control system to force visitors to use updated files. This is terrible. Instead link to apache-003.css and set it to be cached forever. When you change the file you just change the links to apache-004.css. That eliminates millions of bandwidth and resource robbing If-Modified-Since request

Web Developers sometimes use file.ext?v=004 as a version control system to force visitors to use updated files. This is terrible. Instead link to apache-003.css and set it to be cached forever. When you change the file you just change the links to apache-004.css. That eliminates millions of bandwidth and resource robbing If-Modified-Since request

"Increase your page load times and save bandwidth with easy and really effective methods using apache htaccess directives. mod_headers to set expires, and max-age, and cache-control headers on certain filetypes. The second method employs mod_expires to do the same thing -- together with FileETag, makes for some very fast page loads!"

When an Error is encountered, Apache serves the Status Code header and the ErrorDocument for the error. For instance, requesting a non-existing file causes a 404 Not Found error.List of all 57 HTTP Status Codes recognized by Apache, and view all returned source-code and headers for all 57 Apache Response Codes, like 506, 503, 408, etc.

Example use of an image sprite with css to speed up your websites drastically. An image sprite is 1 image composed of multiple images, using CSS you can display just one part of the image using background-position.